SIR JOHN FROISSART
Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the adjoining countries
from the latter part of the reign of Edward II to the coronation of Henry IV. Vol.1
page 209

theje words to the king as earl, and fay as follows : You become liegeman to the king of France, my lord, here prefent, as earl of Poitou and Montrieul,. and you promife to be faithful and loyal to him— Say Yea : and the king, as count of Poitou and Montrieul, fhall fay Yea: and then the king of France fhall receive the faid king and earl as liegeman by faith and mouth, faving any other his right. And in this manner fhall all future homages be paid. For this caufe we deliver over for us and for our fuccefTors, dukes of Guienne, after homages done, letters patent, fealed with our great feal, if the king of France fhall require it ; and with this we promife to keep on our faith the peace and concord moll ajnicably between the kings of France and the above mentioned kings of England, dukes pf Guienne*."
Thefe letters were carried to France by the afore faîd lords, and the king of France ordered them to be preferved in his chancery.
CHAP. XXIV.
ROBERT, COUNT D'A*TOI$, BANISHED FRANCE,
13 OBERT, count d'Artois, was the man above
* all others, who had moil affifted king Philip to gain poffefiion of the crown j he was one of the
* See the copy of the original infiniment pf t^e homage and the witneflee to it, in Rymer, anno 1329. Alfo another, of which this in Froiffart ieems a copy, figned at Eltham, March 31, 133* t
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